Before/after tattooed face

The gentleman above is Michael Campbell in two mug shots taken five years apart. The photo at left depicts Campbell in 2003 and the right is from October. "Mug Shot Metamorphosis" (The Smoking Gun, thanks Gil Kaufman!)

@ JJasper #32
Its not so bad a song that your reference has now caused to be stuck in my head, but the visual of Campbell’s face that appears along with it that is beginning to mess things up.
thank you
thank you
thank you so very fuckin much

Now interestingly, the last I checked, in the U.K. it is illegal for a tattoo parlour (and they all have to be government registered and regulated) to tattoo above the neck and below the wrists. The state of Connecticut too, it seems.

It gets tricky of course – permanent makeup for instance has a very different social stigma to serious original (and hence unnatural looking) artwork.

It looks like he has an ’88’ on his temple in the profile shot on Smoking Gun. Assuming it’s an Aryan thing and not just his favorite number, the fact that he’s turned his face black with ink is… ironic? even weirder? I don’t know.

As soon as I start losing my hair that’s what I’m planning to do. Nothing says virile like a face full of lousy ink (and of course a pitbull tattooed on your neck that looks like it was drawn with a Magnadoodle).

Shenanigans, I say! The tattoo in the right temporomandibular area is an inverse of the “new” tattoo. Nice try with the photoshops though. Maybe a collaborative effort over the interwebs would produce better results.

Fark had tons of fun with this one yesterday. My fave post (not mine):

No ear tats?

“So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish, every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out: “Dear God, what is that thing?” will echo in your perfect ears.”

I think you mean psychopathy, not psychosis. Psychopathy is associated with antisocial and criminal behaviors; psychosis is generally just a symptom of a mental disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar mania where the patient suffers from hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, etc.

I’m pretty heavily tattooed, but even my tattoo artist said he wouldn’t tattoo my face because he thinks it’s too anti-social (not that I asked him too, it just came up in a conversation). Not that he’s the tattoo police or anything, if somebody wants it, it’s up to them, but they’ll just have to have a different artist do the work…

I know it’s been said, but I really do think that the worst part about this is that before all the ink, he was an okay-looking guy. Good-looking, even, if he didn’t have any of the tattoos. Clean him up, gel his hair put him in a suit and tie–I could easily see him skulking about the grad student building of my university.

wow, now thats an improvement. Quite scary really till you look at the tip of his nose and he looks like a teddy bear or puppy dog, I’d probably laugh at him, just before he put my face through the window. I wonder how many years he has inside left…

Let me get this straight. You want to make it _easy_ for victims to pick you out in a line-up or identify you on camera, and you want to ensure you never get a date for the rest of your life? OK, we can do that…